BlueTiger

That was a good one! The writers do a great job of making John a fairly clever bloke while still letting him be dwarfed by Sherlock's brilliance. I'm not that familiar with other adaptations, but I gather Watson is sometimes portrayed as a dunce. That seems like a real disservice to the character - he is a doctor, after all! I like that this version of John is really pretty quick-witted - with some good lines to show for it. Sherlock just happens to be operating on a whole other level.

My sentiment, exactly. I would have liked 2-3 weeks between each episode. Maybe that's weird... or not.But, then again, who am I to complain. We're getting three new episodes very soon... Yay!! I'm with you! With a show like this in the age of internet forums and social media, half the fun is the life it takes on outside itself. This fan base could easily keep itself busy with one episode for two weeks afterward. With the whole series over in 11 days... wow! I think we'll all be left in a conflicted stupor, unable to fully process what we've seen yet already starving for more. Meanwhile, I don't know how some of you have dealt with all the waiting. I was only introduced to Sherlock a little over two months ago and I'm already climbing the walls here. This does not bode well for the next long wait!

He WOULD have to mature an awful lot, but that's why I think it's cool that they started this Sherlock young. This is Sherlock before he learned to subdue his ego and behave bearably. He has this raging genius, but he doesn't have much wisdom. Or any. Moftiss have mused about how great it would be if the show goes on for decades and we get to see John and Sherlock as 50-something men still solving crimes together. I think that would be wonderful, but especially if we get to see Sherlock gradually grow into a grownup, and a better person. Remember: "Sherlock Holmes is a great man. And someday, if we're very very lucky, he might even be a good one."

Ha ha, thanks! I should mention that there's almost no significance to BlueTiger as a screen name. I bought a refurbished router for my home wifi, and the previous user had called their network BlueTiger for some reason. I kind of dug it, so I kept it and started using it as a screen name. But I thought the avatar should reflect the goofiness of the whole thing. On the IMDB boards I go by NamelessInNewJersey, which has a similarly random origin.

I don't think Sherlock would bother holding a grudge against Sally and Anderson because he'd see them as nothing more than pawns in Moriarty's game. Sure, they were always unfriendly to him, but that was really small potatoes to Sherlock. The reason they had him arrested was that they were manipulated that way by Moriarty. Remember how unconcerned Sherlock looked during his arrest? He knew this was just another hoop he was being made to jump through before the real showdown, whatever that might be. He knew the whole thing was ultimately between him and Moriarty.

Seems to me that making the antagonist from “Scandal” an American CIA agent served an actual purpose rather than being thrown in to knock Americans. The revelation that powerful American forces were also after Irene Adler proved she had something bigger and of greater international significance than some naughty pictures of a minor British royal. As Sherlock rightly points out, the Americans wouldn’t give a rat’s arse about that. So why America rather than some other random country? Simple: this had to do with a terror plot, and America is the number-one target for terrorists who oppose the “great Satans” of the West. Other countries get attacked too, but America is the big fish.

Cheers, thanks for the welcome! I was only introduced to Sherlock a couple months ago, but I've now watched all the episodes multiple times so I'm about as obsessed as anyone. I'm from near New York so you can read my posts in an American accent if you must (but it's certainly not required) (and especially not when I'm making up lines for Mycroft Holmes).

Personally I'm convinced Molly and Mycroft were both in on the fake death, and nothing in the trailer contradicts that. Assuming Mycroft is looking up at Sherlock, he doesn't even look shocked to see him. It's more like, "Oh hello, brother dear. Back in London, are we? You really might have phoned...." Molly does look like she's about to be taken by surprise, but probably just because Sherlock never told her where he was going or when he was coming back. Molly's too apt to put her foot in her mouth to be trusted with more information than necessary.